Paint strainer



Feb. 16, 1937. B QDOM 2,070,998

PAINT STRAINER Filed June 1, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet l Attorneys Feb. 16, 1937 3 w ODOM 2,070,998

' PYAINT STRAINER Filed June 1, 1956 zsheets-sheet 2 v Inventor 6. Odom By Mug-070m A itorneys Patented Feb. 16, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAINT STRAINER Blaine W. Odom, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application June 1,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a simple and economical strainer which is expressly designed for use by painters in filtering or straining comparatively thick paint and enamel.

It is a matter of common knowledge to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that when a pot or bucket of paint has been in use during the regular day's routine of painting and is allowed to set over night, it becomes coated with a skin-like film. The next day when the painter reaches the job, it is the custom to strain the paint and various makeshift methods are obviously resorted to in accomplishing this result. As a general proposition, most painters will simply stretch a piece of silk, such as for example a ladys silk stocking, over the receptacle in which the paint is poured for straining. It stands to reason that this is an impracticable way of accomplishing the result and is highly dangerous. This is due to the fact that the cloth or stocking is used over and over, and ordinarily the painter will simply wash it out in turpentine. It is well known that turpentine contains poisonous ingredients unquestionably injurious to the system of the painter.

It is my primary aim to provide the trade with a simple and effective strainer which will aid in overcoming these objections and others with which the trade is familiar. In accomplishing this result I have perfected an unusually simple and economical strainer which may be made and sold as an advertising novelty and which is aptly fitted and suited for the purposes intended.

Briefly, the nature of the device is a simple laminated or double ply annulus or ring which serves as a support, this being provided with a central sagging gauze strainer such as may be made from cheesecloth or conventional straining canvas.

Other features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and the accompanying illustrative drawings.

In the drawings, wherein like numerals are em ployed to designate like parts throughout the same:

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a paint can. showing the improved strainer and the manner in which it is used;

Figure 2 is a per se;

Figure 3 is a central sectional view showing the sectional construction of the strainer;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the cardboard rings used in constructing the supporting annulus or ring of the strainer.

top plan view of the strainer 1936, Serial No. 82,956

In reducing the preferred embodiment of the invention to practice, I have found it expedient and practicable to utilize a pair of duplicate cardboard or similar composition rings 5 and B. These are simply glued or otherwise fastened together in superimposed relationship to form the annular support. In gluing the parts together, I insert the marginal edge I of a piece of gauze or straining canvas 8 therebetween, as indicated in Figure 3. This fabric has its marginal edge gathered properly to allow it to drape itself into the desired sagging or receptacle-shape illustrated in the drawings. The ring support 9 serves not only as an appropriate support to rest on the paint can ID, as shown in Figure to the accommodation of printed advertisements, whereby to permit the device to be used as a sort of an advertising medium for paint stores or paint manufacturers as the case may be.

The strainer will be made in different sizes so as to accommodate it to different types of paint cans and the like. In use it is placed on the can, as illustrated in Figure 1, and the scum laden paint is poured into the strainer and allowed to drip therethrough, as indicated, whereby toproperly condition it by removing the extraneous matter and thick accumulations. After the straining operation is completed, the device is simply dipped into a thinner solution whereby to cleanse it and to make it ready for future use.

It is thought that the description taken in connection with the understanding of fore, a more lengthy description is thought unnecessary.

While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it is to be understood that minor changes coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to if desired.

I claim:

As a new article of manufacture, the strainer described for use on and in a paint can, comprising essentially two annular fiat pieces of cardboard superimposed one above the other and having coincident inner edges forming an opening, a piece of gauze pendent in dish form from the inner edge of the lower piece of cardboard and having its edge gathered and interposed between the inner edge portions of the two pieces of cardboard, and glue interposed between the pieces of cardboard and securing the same together and also securing the gathered edge of the piece of gauze between the two.

BLAINE W. ODOM.

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